Toward a standardized supplier code of ethics: development of a design concept based on diffusion of innovation theory

Logistics Research - Tập 6 Số 4 - Trang 187-216 - 2013
Martin C. Schleper1, Christian Busse2
1Institute for Supply Chain Management—Procurement and Logistics (ISCM), EBS University for Business and Law, Wiesbaden, Germany
2Chair of Logistics Management, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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